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- H. Nehemiah Dodge Smith1797 - 1880
- W. Parthena MooreEst 1807 - Aft 1880
m. 14 Jun 1857
Facts and Events
| Name |
Nehemiah Dodge Smith |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1] |
26 Aug 1797 |
New London (town), New London, Connecticut, United States |
| Marriage |
Nov 1818 |
to Sally Wood |
| Marriage |
3 Feb 1830 |
to Olive Bailey |
| Census[5] |
27 Aug 1850 |
Berlin, Erie, Ohio, United States |
| Divorce |
Est 1855 |
from Olive Bailey |
| Marriage |
14 Jun 1857 |
Van Buren, Michigan, United Statesto Parthena Moore |
| Census[3] |
15 Jun 1860 |
Chickasaw, Iowa, United States |
| Census[4] |
9 Sep 1870 |
Lawrence (township), Van Buren, Michigan, United States |
| Death[1][2][6] |
7 Feb 1880 |
Lamoni, Decatur, Iowa, United States |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 123. Nehemiah Dodge, in Smith, H. Allen (Henry Allen). A Genealogical History of the Descendants of the Rev. Nehemiah Smith of New London County, Conn: with Mention of His Brother John and Nephew Edward, 1638-1888. (Albany, N. Y.: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1889)
p. 149.
Nehemiah Dodge (Hezekiah, Paul, Samuel, Nehemiah, Nehemiah), b. New London, Aug. 26, 1797; m. Nov. 1818, Sally, dau. of Roswell Wood; she d. and he m. Feb 3, 1830, Olive Bailey of N.Y. State, dau. of Benjamin and Axie (Barber) Bailey of Vermont. He was a master of several trades and left Conn. when 21 years of age; he went to Berlin, Ohio, thence to Indiana and afterward to Iowa; about 1854, with his son Henry, he moved to Mich., where they remained a few years and returned to Laomi [sic], Decatur Co., Iowa; he was captain of the Home Guards a number of years; he d. Feb. 7, 1880, age 82; Mrs. Olive B. Smith, b. March 27, 1808; d. Nov. 10, 1870. Ch.
First Wife:
238. Lucy Ann, b. May 22, 1822
238. Sally Angeline, b. Nov. 5, 1830
239. Francis King, b.
Second wife:
240. Christina Evaline, b. Nov. 19, 1830
241. Henry Clinton, b. June 4, 1837
242. Lizzie P., b. April 16, 1840
243. Burton Guy, b. Dec. 19, 1849
This brief biography leaves several mysteries. One is why the child attributed as (probably) last of Sally was born after he is stated to have married Olive Bailey, and in fact only a couple of weeks before the birth of the first child of Olive Bailey. It seems most likely that the year here is wrong. Sally (the child) in the 1900 census provides her birth month as Nov. 1829, and if this year is used, this problem seems to be resolved.
The second oddity is the omission of the marriage to Parthena Moore Elliott Steele, which occurred during the time that he is stated to be in Michigan, although is well before the death date of Olive Bailey. I had thought that perhaps given the connections to Lamoni, Iowa, he was a member of the Latter Day Saints and practiced polygamy. However the one biography would seem to contradict this with its strong statement of his Baptist faith. It's most likely that he got a divorce and for some reason or reasons stayed close to Olive. In the Iowa State Census in 1856 Olive (with no Nehemiah, who is presumably in Michigan looking to marry Parthena Moore sometime the next year) is described as "widowed" (there's no check-box for divorced) even though Nehemiah is still alive, so it's probable that they were separated without the intent to come back together, and quite probably formally divorced.
It's conceivably possible I have the wrong Nehemiah Smith here, but everything seems to fit too neatly, with Parthena clearly marrying a Nehemiah D. Smith, who based on census records is born in Connecticut, and with an Olive Smith of the right age and a son named Burton of the right age and birthplace living on the next census page in Chickasaw, Iowa in 1860. It seems that Smith moved back and forth between Michigan and Iowa, as in the 1870 census they are back in Van Buren county and then the biographers indicate that he moved to Lamoni (no where near Chickasaw County) which is apparently where he died.
- ↑ Frank K. Smith, in Biographical souvenir of the counties of Delaware and Buchanan, Iowa: containing portraits and biographies of many of the prominent citizens and sketches of many of the early settled families of these counties. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1976)
Pg. 500, 1890.
[Here is excerpted the portion which applies to Nehemiah]
Mr. Smith, like most of the earlier settlers of Delaware county, comes of English extraction and New England ancestry. His grandparents on both sides, as well as his parents, were natives of Connecticut, descendants of that sturdy, thrifty, intelligent and patriotic stock on which fell the brunt of the battles in the colonies' struggle for independence, and which has furnished the inspiration, as well as the practical means, for working out many of the great social and industrial problems which sprang into existence with the winning of that independence, His father, Nehemiah D. Smith, was born in 1795, was reared in his native state, Connecticut, served in the War of 1812, when only a lad, and subsequently accompanied his parents West and settled in Erie county, Ohio, where he married and resided many years, dying, however, in Lamoni, Decatur county, Iowa, in 1879, in his eighty-fourth year, being then a citizen of that state. Having been brought up in New England he was, in accordance with the New England idea of training the young to habits of industry and usefulness, apprenticed to the trade of a carpenter, joiner and ship-builder, and followed his trade as long as he resided in his native state, but, on settling in Ohio, gave it up for the more congenial pursuits of agriculture. He was an industrious, frugal, plain, unpretentious man, devoted entirely to his own affairs, exceedingly domestic in his tastes, and throughout life an earnest, devout member of the church, giving largely of his time and energies to the promotion of church work. He belonged to the Baptist denomination and served his church faithfully for many years in various clerical positions, in addition to the general interest he took in the spread of religious doctrine.
The mother of Frank K. Smith bore the maiden name of Sallie Wood. She was a daughter of Roswell Wood, an intelligent, respectable farmer and descendant of the ancient blue-stocking stock of Connecticut. She was Nehemiah P. Smith's first wife, he having been three times married. She was an invalid during the greater part of her married life and died at the early age of twenty-eight, in 1828, in Huron county, Ohio. She was a pious, exemplary Christian woman - one who stood faithfully by her husband in his early struggles in the then frontier settlements of Ohio, and gave him that valuable aid, kind counsel and sympathetic companionship which a man receives only from the wife of his choice. She left, surviving her, four children, two boys .and two girls, only one of these, a daughter, Sallie, wife of Daniel Minkler, of Erie county, Ohio, now living, besides the subject of this sketch. Nehemiah D. Smith married for his second wife, Miss Olive Bailey, of Erie county, Ohio, who gave birth to four children, all of whom are now living, and are named Chastina E., Henry C., Lizzie P., Burton G., all married and settled in Iowa.
- ↑ Richland, Chickasaw, Iowa, in United States. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M653)
Pg. 63, 15 JUN 1860.
N.D. Smith, 62, male, farmer, real estate valued at 500, personal estate valued at 50, born in Connecticut
Perthana Smith, 53, female, born in New York
Rosilla Smith, 12, female, born in Ohio, attending school
Nehemiah Dodge Smith's second wife, Olive Bailey, is on page 62 of the same census:
Olive Smith, 50, female, born in New York
Burton Smith, 10, male, born in Ohio (not checked for having attended school in past year)
- ↑ Lawrence, Van Buren, Michigan, in United States. 1870 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publications M593 and T132)
Pg. 13, 9 SEP 1870.
Smith Nehemiah, 73, male, farmer, value of real estate 1000, value of personal estate 320, born in Connecticut
Persana, 62, female, keeping house, born in New York
- ↑ Berlin Township, Erie, Ohio, in United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432)
Pg. 458A, 27 AUG 1850.
Neamiah D. Smith, 52, male, carpenter, value of real estate 175, born in Connecticut
Olive Smith, 42, female, born in New York
Henry Smith, 12, male, born in Ohio
Betsy Smith, 10, female, born in Ohio
Burton Smith, 5 months, male, born in Ohio
Ann M. Smith, 46, female, born in Connecticut
- ↑ History of Decatur County, Iowa, and its people. (Chicago: S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1915)
Vol. 1 / Pg. 134, 1915.
The first person born in the new town [of Lamoni], that is, after the town was
established, was Bertie Lamoni White, the son of Volentine and Mary A. White. The first ones to be married were Earl D. Bailey and Katie Harris. The first person that died was Nehemiah D. Smith, whose death occurred Februarv 7, 1880.
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